Talk Is Cheap!

It is really quite fascinating to watch as Republican leaders distance themselves from Mitt Romney’s take on why the president won re-election.

In a recent conference call Mr. Romney told financial his well healed supporters that the president was able to win because the president and his campaign gave “extraordinary financial gifts to African-Americans (free health care), Hispanics (amnesty) and young voters (free contraceptives).”

Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, Haley Barber and a host of others have denounced Romney’s comments as divisive and un-helpful to the future of the party.  They have called for their party to reach out to all Americans and to become the party of the 100%...not just the 53% that pay taxes.

This sudden transformation to a kinder, gentler more populist party is astonishing given the partisan rancor that many of them were spewing just a few short days ago.  The flip flopping in their rhetoric and tone is reminiscent of tactic so blatantly used by their candidate for president.

“Therein lies the rub!”

It’s one thing to sound conciliatory, reasonable and populist after having your butt soundly kicked. It’s quite another to actually believe what you are saying.

You have to believe in your core that the black man standing in the unemployment line is just as American as the millionaire industrialist.  You have to believe that the struggling Hispanic laborer is just as deserving of a good job and financial security for his family as the local entrepreneur. 

Compassion is not just something you say…it’s something you feel.

Can Republicans successfully and honestly navigate this path from the party of the few to the party of the many?

We’ll see!

The proof for us will be not in what they say but how they govern.

They can start by passing a bi-partisan bill that extends the Bush tax cuts for all Americans making under $250,000.  The president believes this is the way to go. So do Congressional Democrats and many Congressional Republicans. 

So get it done!  Give 98% of Americans the security of knowing that their taxes won’t go up right after the holidays.  It will be good for the economy.  It will be good for small businesses.  It will be good for Wall Street.  And it will be good for morale.  If Republicans really want to show that they mean what they say…that they are turning away from the divisiveness and rancor of the Tea Party toward the big tent party of inclusion…then get it done.

Talk is cheap!  We see better than we hear!  Better to see once than hear a 100 times!

Get the point?